Visiting Scholar in LGBTQ+ Studies Dr. Tony Adams (he\/they), is professor of Communication at Bradley University. He uses ethnography and autoethnography to study the everyday interactions that make up our lives, enact our identities, and create LGBTQ+ experiences. <\/p>\n
Dr. Adams’ presentation:<\/p>\n
There are many popular sayings about the consequentiality of everyday relational affairs. There\u2019s the quote attributed to Margaret Mead: \u201cNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it\u2019s the only thing that ever has.\u201d And the aphorism credited to Aesop: \u201cNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.\u201d There are those inspirational memes: \u201cSome stranger somewhere remembers you because you were kind to them,\u201d \u201cSomeone heard a song that reminded them of you,\u201d and \u201cYou knew the other for only a short time but they changed your life for the better.\u201d And there\u2019s the \u201cbutterfly effect,\u201d the concept that suggests even the slightest act can motivate infinite iterative and compounding acts. <\/p>\n
In this lecture, Dr. Tony Adams will demonstrate the consequentiality of our everyday relational affairs. He will focus specifically on mundane queer encounters\u2014moments of meeting that reference same-gender attraction and LGBQ+ identities and\/or challenge heteronormative expectations about when, where, how, and with whom intimacy can occur. Throughout, he will show how we can, knowingly and unknowingly, change someone with our words and deeds. He pays homage to social interactions that, at the time they occurred, may have felt trivial and unremarkable yet now, upon reflection, feel formative and momentous. In so doing, he illustrates the potential iterative and compounding impact of what we say and don\u2019t say, do and don\u2019t do.<\/p>\n
Event includes Q&A and a reception (with tea and snacks!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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